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LIFTING FORK. No. 551,433. Patented Dec. 17, 1895.

WITNESSES; INVENTEIR.

f X a} g UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EZRA A. IZOZENS, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO lVILLlAM v H. CRAXVFORD, OF SAME PLACE.

LIFTING-FORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 551,433, dated December 17, 1895.

Application filed August 10, 1895. Serial No. 558,831 (No model) To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, EZRA A. OOZENS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, Lucas county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lifting- Forks, of which the following is a specificzv' verted, be utilized as a meat-hook for removing meats, fish, and the like from their receptacles without soiling the hands of the user with the brine and liquor in which such articles are usually contained. I attain these objects by means of the device hereinafter described, and shown and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, made part hereof, showing myfork, with a ham suspended therefrom, in position to be suspended to an overhead hook.

In the drawing, a is the handle, and b is a stout two-pronged fork secured thereto. One of these prongs has a short supplemental prong c, projecting outwardly, and the other prong has a short supplemental prong d,

pickled meats and the like may be easily removed from their liquor.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

A lifting fork, comprising the handle, a twopronged fork secured thereto, a branch projecting forwardly from one of said prongs, and a rearwardly curved branch projecting from the other of said prongs, said prongs and said branches lying substantially in the same plane, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

EZRA A. GOZENS.

In presence of- FREDERICK L. GEDDES, L. E. BROWN. 

